And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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